New York

‘Hairspray’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore by Amanda Gunther

Get ready Baltimore – Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore is welcoming you to the 60’s with their fabulously fantastic production of the Tony Award-winning Musical Hairspray. Baltimore’s iconic musical...

‘Frost/Nixon’ at The Vagabond Players by Amanda Gunther

“…Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow.” Those words that shook a nation when uttered from 37th President of the United States Richard Nixon are now coming to life as...

NIBBLES AND SIPS AROUND TOWN: Hop On In! by Jordan Wright

Seems like the holidays stacked up on us this year. It’s times like these we wish we were still in school or had paid federal holidays. But noooo – we’re still hopping around finding the best places...

‘Late Night Comic’ plays through this Saturday at JBK Theatre at Frederick Community College

Theatre FCC is proud to present the musical Late Nite Comic, the first production of this show since it closed on Broadway almost 25 years ago. Written by Allan Knee with music and lyrics by Brian...

‘Memphis’ at Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center by Amanda Gunther

Coming to you live from the center of your radio dial – the most sensational show hot off Broadway to hit your Hippodrome Theatre stage – Broadway Across America presents Memphis! The winner of four...

Kyle Carter: From Woodbridge, VA to Washington Heights in ‘In the Heights’ by Joel Markowitz

I was talking to my friend Kenny a few weeks ago and he told me about a co-worker named Grace whose son Kyle Carter was in the tour of In the Heights. Since In the Heights is one of my all-time...

An Interview with Justin Kiska on Directing ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ at Way Off Broadway by Teresa McCormick Ertel

Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre in Frederick, MD presents the classic tale of duality, Frank Wildhorn’s musical Jekyll & Hyde, directed by Justin Kiska. Teresa: What was your first personal exposure...

‘From Auditions to the Lair: Eitan Mazia on playing The Phantom of the Opera’ by Joel Markowitz

It was a night to remember when Eitan Mazia made his entrance in The Phantom of the Opera at a packed auditorium at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, MD, in Young Artists of America’s...

Sherman Yellen on ‘Josephine Tonight’

I fell in love with Sherman Yellen’s musical The Rothschilds when I was a kid growing up in Buffalo, NY. I was thrilled when I heard that his musical Josephine Tonight was about to open at MetroStage,...

‘The Phantom of the Opera’ at Young Artists of America by Amanda Gunther

In its first full scale production since forming their organization less than one year ago, on Friday and Saturday night, March 16 and 17, 2012, Young Artists of America presented the regional...

‘Legally Blonde The Musical’ at Act Two @ Levine by Andrew L. Baughman

Making great theatre is “all in the timing.” How could Act Two @ Levine have known their production of Legally Blonde The Musical would fall during a week of tense national discussion over women’s...

‘The Addams Family’ at The France-Merrick Performing Arts Center at The Hippodrome Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Every family has one. This family happens to have 25. Broadway Across America takes you into a deep dark hole – and yes, you do want to go there with their astonishing production of The Addams Family....

‘Blackbird’ at The Barrelhouse Theatre by David Friscic

The insistent presence of a blackbird tapping against a window hovers above the two characters trapped in their own mutual hells in Adam Rapp’s intense and stimulating play Blackbird. Under the astute...

‘California Suite’ at Vagabond Players by Amanda Gunther

A fly on the wall of a Beverly Hills Hotel room would get quite the show in California Suite at Vagabond Players. A series of four different happenings occur in that hotel room over the course of one...